I have a problem with my cd-burner. It is a Philips DVD Writer w/ LightScribe, connected to the PC via a USB 2 IDE box. Iḿ sure you know the type... When using it I dont have any problems burning a cd in XP. *But I HATE* having to use xp to do stuff like this because Linux is just so much better!

When I use cdrecord fromn the command line I get:

:~# cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.17-10-generic
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
Using libscg version 'debian-0.8debian2'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'PHILIPS ' 'DVDR16LS ' 'P1.6' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

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root@sean-desktop:~/Desktop/lynsmusic# cdrecord *.* dev=0,0,0
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to <cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.17-10-generic
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
scsidev: '0,0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33
Using libscg version 'debian-0.8debian2'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling').
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 3
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'PHILIPS '
Identifikation : 'DVDR16LS '
Revision : 'P1.6'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code.
cdrecord: See /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian for details on DVD support.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96R
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 40 in real TAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Turning BURN-Free off
cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: 2A 00 00 01 13 9D 00 00 1F 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
cmd finished after 0.000s timeout 40s
write track data: error after 0 bytes
cdrecord: A write error occured.
cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above.

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Has this got something to do with it being usb? And if it is what could I do to solve this?

Ive been using Linux for about a year now and Ie never had this problem before using this drive. I used the same drive with a Fedora distro, can remember which, quite successfully burning discs every day.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks in advance.

Bump... Posted Yesterday... Any help will be greatly appreciated.